Somers Point, NJ: how dark is the sky here?

Somers Point reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Somers Point's sky is brighter than 23.3% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

The nearest darker sky to Somers Point

3 miles from Somers Point, straight-line, sits Ocean City, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Somers Point's own suburban edge band.

Ocean City, NJ is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

How Somers Point compares nationally

Somers Point, NJ has a population of about 10,611, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Somers Point places 743 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.